Ruth de Souza Movies

Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl watches them in silence.

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her...

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and...

The documentary tells the story of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who became a success in the 60s and, since then, has inspired writers and artists...

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the...

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an...

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His...

A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.